http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:19 -0700 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2174/1/DC-Uighurs-wait-to-take-in-Gitmo-detainees/index.html For centuries, hospitality to weary travelers has been part of the Uighur culture. The Uighur land in what is now the far western province of China carried merchants traversing the famed Silk Road. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2173/1/Amnesty-International-Disappointed-by-Appeals-Court-Decision-to-Delay-Release-of-Uighur-Detainees/index.html Human Rights Organization Urges DHS to Recognize Detainees' Non-Enemy Combatant Status zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2172/1/Showdown-ahead-over-17-Uighur-detainees/index.html The Justice Department says the judiciary does not have the power to release Guantánamo detainees into the US. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2171/1/Some-at-Gitmo-see-US-as-ally/index.html A Chinese Muslim locked up at Guantanamo Bay may soon be granted an improbable wish: To move to the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2169/1/US-court-blocks-Uighurs-release-from-Guantanamo/index.html A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2168/1/Guantanamo-Uighur-release-blocked/index.html An US federal appeal court has blocked a judge's order that 17 Chinese detainees at the Guantanamo Bay camp should immediately be released. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2166/1/Judge-Orders-17-Detainees-at-Guantanamo-Freed-/index.html A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to release 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay by the end of the week, the first such ruling in nearly seven years of legal disputes over the administration’s detention policies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2165/1/Judge-orders-Chinese-Muslims-freed-from-Gitmo/index.html A federal judge has ordered the immediate release into the United States of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for several years in the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2164/1/Anger-over-Guantanamo-Bay-ruling-/index.html The White House has reacted angrily after a judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay should be released into the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2163/1/Ruling-on-Chinese-hits-Bush-jail-policy/index.html A US court has ordered the immediate release of 17 Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, in a landmark decision that deals another blow to the Bush administration's detainee policy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2160/1/DC-Area-Families-Are-Ready-to-Receive-Uighur-Detainees/index.html When U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was looking for a place in the United States to send 17 Chinese Muslim detainees he wants released from Guantanamo Bay, the Washington area was an obvious choice. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2159/1/White-House-Seeks-To-Halt-Release-Of-17-Detainees/index.html This week could see a remarkable moment in American legal history, as 17 Guantanamo detainees are on the verge of being let out of prison. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2158/1/US-Judge-Orders-Release-of-17-Uighur-Muslims-from-Guantamo/index.html A U.S. federal judge has called for the immediate release of seventeen Uighur Muslims who have been detained in Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years, because they're no longer "enemy combatants." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2157/1/Beijing-demands-return-of-Chinese-from-Guantanamo-/index.html China on Tuesday demanded the repatriation of Chinese Muslims held by the United States military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2156/1/A-Victory-for-the-Uighurs-at-Guantanamobut-Now-What/index.html The strangest cases to come out of Guantanamo have been those against a group of Chinese Muslims who were picked up in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2155/1/Guantanamo-Uyghurs-Ordered-Freed/index.html A U.S. judge orders the release of 17 ethnic Uyghurs held for almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2154/1/US-Parole-Uighur-Detainees-Into-the-United-States-/index.html A group of Chinese Uighurs who have been cleared of the "enemy combatant" designation should be freed from Guantanamo and given parole status in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2153/1/Freedom-remains-an-abstract-concept-for-Uygurs-in-legal-limbo/index.html The United States held him for seven years and then, ultimately, decided that he posed no threat to national security. But he's still sitting in a prison at Guantanamo Bay because no other country will take him. Nor will Washington let him live in the US, even temporarily. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2152/1/Uighur-Detainees-May-Be-Released-to-US/index.html A federal judge is considering whether to order a group of detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay released into the United States, in what would instantly become a landmark legal decision in the years-long battle over the rights of terrorism suspects there. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2151/1/Uyghur-wins-tightrope-contest-across-Seoul-river/index.html South Korea: A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2150/1/Chinese-Muslims-No-Longer-Considered-Enemy-Combatants/index.html The filing of a short notice in federal court late on Tuesday was an admission by the Bush administration that the Chinese Muslim Uighurs currently detained at Guantanamo Bay no longer are considered enemy combatants but are being held only until another country will agree to take them in. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2149/1/Severe-Repression-of-Uyghurs-Intensifies-Conflict-in-China-/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) [1] has strongly condemned the Chinese authorities for having intensified the suppression of Uyghurs and forcing Uyghur people to attack their own ethnic leaders in the Xinjiang Uyghur “Autonomous Region” in the name of “maintaining safety” for the  October 1st National Day. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2148/1/All-Uighurs-now-off-enemy-list/index.html The Justice Department, in a move that could put new pressure on a federal judge to decide whether Guantanamo prisoners are to be released when no longer considered “enemy combatants,” has decided to take all 17 members of a Chinese Muslim minority — the Uighurs — off of that enemies list. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2146/1/A-Chinese-Muslim-in-Gitmo-legal-limbo/index.html The United States held him for seven years and then, ultimately, decided that he poses no threat to national security. But he's still sitting in prison at Guantanamo Bay because no other country will take him. Nor will the U.S. let him come here to live, even temporarily. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2145/1/Doubt-Arises-in-Account-of-an-Attack-in-China-/index.html Just days before the Olympic Games began in August, a truck plowed into a large group of paramilitary officers jogging in western China, sending bodies flying, Chinese officials said at the time. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2144/1/Chinas-Muslims-say-Ramadan-a-time-of-repression/index.html All that was left on the chin of the Muslim man praying at the huge brownstone mosque was a small patch of stubble. He said officials had forced young men in China's far western Xinjiang region to cut off their beards at the start of the holy month of Ramadan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2139/1/Ramadan-Lunches-For-Chinas-Muslims-/index.html Muslim Uyghur employees at government departments in China's northwest are being offered free lunches during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2137/1/China-vows-quotpreemptive-strikesquot-on-Uighur-Muslims/index.html China is preparing to put high-pressure on Uighur Muslims by forcing them to accept identification with the Chinese nation and Chinese culture. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2130/1/China-repression-grows-says-US-/index.html Repression of religious freedom in some parts of China has intensified over the past year, the US government says. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2129/1/Chinese-Muslims-persecuted-after-bombings/index.html Deadly attacks rocked the Xinjiang region of China this summer. The bombings were attributed to Muslim separatist groups advocating for independence. Now, four local governments in the same area have placed restrictions on the Muslim holiday Ramadan citing the need to protect social stability. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2127/1/China-vows-quotpreemptive-strikesquot-on-Xinjiang-separatists/index.html China's tense far-western region of Xinjiang will conduct a "re-education" drive against separatist unrest in the wake of attacks during the Olympics, with its Party chief vowing preemptive attacks on foes. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2120/1/Detainees-seek-to-attend-hearing/index.html Lawyers for a group of Chinese Muslims now being held at Guantanamo Bay asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the Pentagon to take four of the detainees to Washington, D.C., for the hearing on their plea to be released. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2119/1/China-studying-third-West-East-gas-pipeline-report/index.html China may build a third west-east gas pipeline in a bid to meet strong demand along its economically vibrant eastern seaboard, state media reported on Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2118/1/Young-woman-fired-from-Uyghur-radio-station-then-arrested/index.html Reporters Without Borders condemns the dismissal and arrest of Mehbube Ablesh, a member of the Uyghur community in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, who worked for Xinjiang People’s Radio Station, a government station based in the provincial capital of Urumqi. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2117/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Meets-with-US-Secretary-of-State-Condoleeza-Rice/index.html  Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader, and Mr. Alim Seytoff, UAA general secretary, have attended the Iftaar Reception at the U.S. State Department hosted by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in the evening of September the 8th. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2116/1/China-officials-tighten-restrictions-on-Muslim-practices/index.html Government employees and Communist members banned from fasting during Ramadan zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2113/1/Uyghur-Radio-Worker-Sacked-Detained/index.html An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2108/1/Ramadan-Curbs-Imposed-in-China/index.html Local governments in a Muslim desert region in western China have imposed strict limits on religious practices during the traditional Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began last week, according to the Web sites of four of those governments. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2107/1/Ramadan-Curbs-on-Chinas-Muslims/index.html After the worst violence there in a decade, officials in China's northwesternmost region tighten curbs on the observance of Ramadan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2106/1/No-Tarawih-for-China-Muslims/index.html Muslims in China's far northwest region of Xinjiang are banned from performing Tarawih prayers, special nightly prayers performed during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, with men prevented from growing beards and women from covering their faces, in the latest restrictions on China's Muslim minority. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2105/1/UNPO-UPR-Statement-China/index.html UNPO draws attention to the plight of ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkestan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2103/1/Ramadan-crackdown-in-China/index.html Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2102/1/China-imposes-Ramadan-security-crackdown-in-Muslim-northwest/index.html Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2099/1/Symposium-highlights-struggle-of-minorities-in-China-/index.html "If you beat the cat every day, one day, the cat will declare his own independence," said Rebiya Kadeer, referring to the injustices committed against her people by the Chinese government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2097/1/A-crackdown-in-Chinas-wild-West-its-Muslim-majority-chunk-of-Central-Asia-/index.html On the roads crossing the dusty fields of cotton and maize around the oasis city of Kashgar, China’s police are on alert. Terrorists, as they call them, have been stepping up their attacks. Officers at checkpoints turn back foreigners venturing towards troublespots. Citizens entering Kashgar line up by the roadside to have their identity cards scanned. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2096/1/Chinese-region-tightens-controls-over-Muslims-for-Ramadan-/index.html Officials have tightened controls over mosques and religious practice in China's restive Xinjiang region for the ongoing Ramadan festival, according to exiled Uighurs and local government notices seen on Thursday zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2093/1/China-conducts-quotcarpet-searchquot-for-Xinjiang-terror-suspects/index.html Our centre learned that, to prevent terrorist strikes from developing into another upsurge during the time when the nation marks the October 1 National Day, Xinjiang is currently mobilizing 200,000 officers and men of the public security force, the Armed Police Force and militia force to undertake a carpet search among the transient population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2090/1/Police-officers-killed-in-China-were-ethnic-Uighurs/index.html Two police officers who were killed and five who were wounded in an ambush in western China on Aug. 27 were ethnic Uighurs searching for a woman who they thought might have been involved in an earlier attack, said a police officer in the village where the ambush took place. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2089/1/China-Unlikely-to-Loosen-Its-Grip-in-West/index.html Experts Anticipate Unyielding Response to Latest Fatal Attacks in Xinjiang Province zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2088/1/Security-stepped-up-in-Xinjiang-for-National-Day/index.html Two ethnic Uyghur police officers have been killed and at least two critically injured in a new clash near the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to authoritative sources and witnesses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2087/1/Police-Killed-in-New-Xinjiang-Clash/index.html Unarmed Uyghur police come under attack while searching for suspects in an August clash. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2081/1/Xinjiang-oil-boom-fuels-Uighur-resentment/index.html Offer energy resources as tribute [to Beijing] to create harmony” proclaims a giant billboard outside a petrol station in Korla, in China’s restive western frontier region of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2080/1/2-Chinese-policemen-killed-in-western-China/index.html The first outbreak of violence in China's western region of Xinjiang since a pair of high-profile attacks during the Olympics has left two Chinese policemen dead and seven more wounded, authorities and an activist said Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2066/1/Switzerland-urged-to-take-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html Amnesty International called on Switzerland yesterday to grant asylum to three foreign detainees held by U.S. authorities in Guantanamo for more than six years, but free to go if they find a safe haven. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2059/1/More-than-100-Uighurs-arrested-in-Kashgar/index.html An exiled group of China's Uighur Muslims said Thursday that police have arrested more than 100 people following the August 4 attack in Kashgar city which killed 16 paramilitary officers. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2058/1/Chinese-Muslim-boxer-determined-for-more-glory/index.html Silamu Hanati goes into Friday's Olympic welterweight semi-finals determined to bring more glory to his troubled Muslim homeland in China's northwest after already ensuring himself an historic medal. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2055/1/Three-Guantanamo-detainees-apply-for-asylum-in-Switzerland-/index.html Three detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba have applied for political asylum in Switzerland, reports said Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2054/1/Post-Olympic-clamp-on-Muslim-Xinjiang-possible/index.html As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2053/1/Por-Bazhyn-the-Uygur-Forstress-in-Tuva-/index.html “Just be patient for a month and a half, and we will know the exact date of building of the Por-Bazhyn fortress by dendrochronology – Tuvan scientist, Vladimir Petrukhin, a scientific worker from Institute of Slavic Studies, answered, when asked which was older, Kara-Bulgusun or Por-Bazhyn. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2049/1/Federal-court-denies-transfer-for-Uighur-Gitmo-detainees/index.html A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within the base. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2048/1/Exiles-claim-China-planning-crackdown-on-Xinjiang-during-Ramadan/index.html A group of exiles from China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority alleged Tuesday that police were planning to crack down on the Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks were carried out during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2047/1/Chinas-ethnic-minorities-have-little-taste-for-Olympics/index.html Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2039/1/Olympic-Terror-Clampdown-Targets-Beijing-Uighurs-After-Attacks-/index.html The 31-year-old musician knew something had changed when two Beijing policemen kept coming to his apartment. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2034/1/Pilots-from-rebel-Uighur-region-grounded-over-Chinese-terror-fears/index.html The three Uighur airline pilots in the Chinese aviation fleet have been ordered from their cockpits by authorities anxious to maintain security during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2033/1/Anger-turns-to-uprising-along-the-Silk-Road/index.html It was just one month before the Olympic Games when Chinese guards led three men away to execution, somewhere amid the apple orchards, at the end of an open-air trial watched by 7,000 local Muslims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2029/1/Chinese-Officials-Defend-Dealings-with-Tibetans-Uighur-Muslims-/index.html Chinese officials say the recent attacks by Uighur separatists in the Western province of Xinjiang are not a sign of wider unrest in the region. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Beijing, officials who met with reporters Saturday defended China's dealings with ethnic minority populations, including Tibetans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2020/1/Few-answers-in-violence-hit-Xinjiang/index.html Chen Aibao was fast asleep when the first explosions shook the centre of Kuqa – a dusty commercial oasis in the arid plains of central Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2018/1/Crackdown-on-Xinjiang-Mosques-Religion-/index.html  Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2017/1/China-faces-life-or-death-struggle-say-Communists/index.html Even though China has been ramping up security across its restive Xinjiang region for months, the local Communist Party boss has said the authorities face a life or death struggle to quell terrorism in the mainly Muslim area. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2015/1/China-Steps-Up-Scrutiny-of-a-Minority-in-Beijing/index.html The police come to the small room the young Uighur cook shares with several other Uighurs to check their papers — and to see if there are new arrivals from his homeland of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2014/1/China-warns-of-quotlife-and-deathquot-battle-with-terror/index.html The leader of China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang has warned of a "life and death struggle" against terrorism, following a series of attacks that raised fears of threats to the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2013/1/-Large-Scale-Arrest-of-Uyghurs-Following-Bombings/index.html Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities launched a large-scale search and arrest of Uyghurs following last week’s bombings in Kuqa County in China’s northwest, group says. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2009/1/Political-killings-rock-Chinas-north-west-/index.html While the world's greatest sporting festival continues in Beijing, in north-west China's Xinjiang Province there has been more political killing, the likes of which has not been seen for years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2004/1/Attack-in-West-China-Kills-3-Security-Officers-/index.html Three security officers were killed and one was wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday at a road checkpoint near Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road oasis in the far west of China, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2003/1/Three-Security-Officials-Killed-in-W-China/index.html Stabbings at Checkpoint Are 3rd Deadly Incident in Xinjiang Region in Days zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2002/1/Three-police-officers-slain-in-western-China/index.html An attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region killed three members of the security force and wounded a fourth, state media reported Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2001/1/Early-in-the-Games-Glimpses-Of-Chinas-Security-Struggles/index.html Violence and bloodshed marring the first two days of the Beijing Olympics provided a dramatic reminder that there is no such thing as perfect security in a country as vast as China, with so many people nursing grievances against the authoritarian government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1999/1/Xinjiangs-Strife-Reverberates-in-Beijing/index.html Though far from home, Xinjiang residents in Beijing felt the effects of the deadly terrorist blasts in their home territory in northwestern Xinjiang early Sunday morning. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1998/1/Violence-taints-the-Beijing-Games/index.html Saturday's attack on American tourists, and continued unrest in Xinjiang, have tested the trouble-free Olympics Chinese officials sought. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1997/1/Violence-mars-Games-opening-weekend/index.html Bomb blasts leave 11 dead in western China; American tourist stabbed to death at Beijing landmark zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1995/1/New-Spasm-of-Violence-in-Western-China-as-11-Die-in-Wave-of-Bombing/index.html The violence in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang rose sharply Sunday morning with the deaths of a security guard and at least 10 suspects after a daring series of bombings that began with a predawn assault on a police station, the state news media reported. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1994/1/Bombing-spree-exposes-ethnic-divisions-in-China/index.html Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1993/1/How-big-is-the-Xinjiang-threat--/index.html China has for months been warning that Xinjiang terrorists were planning attacks during the Olympics - fears that now appear well-founded. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1992/1/Several-blasts-in-Chinas-northwestern-Xinjiang-state-media/index.html Several explosions rocked the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang early Sunday, state media said, citing witnesses who said they saw flashes of fire and sporadic gunshots afterwards. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1990/1/Man-sets-himself-alight-in-anti-China-protest/index.html  A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a protest Friday by ethnic Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in Turkey. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1979/1/Security-tightens-more-as-Olympics-get-under-way/index.html Security forces squeezed their grip on China a notch tighter Friday for the start of the Olympics, edging up restrictions in the capital and imposing much tougher ones in a restive Muslim area in the country's far west. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1977/1/China-tightens-grip-on-western-province-Xinjiang-/index.html Chinese police tightened their grip on the far-west Xinjiang province, where new terrorism threats emerged just hours before the Olympic opening ceremony. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1970/1/Chinas-Uighurs-Wary-Worried-After-Attack/index.html Fear and caution pervaded the warren of mud-brick homes and shops of this northwestern city's ethnic Uighur neighborhood Tuesday, a day after an attack on a paramilitary police unit that killed 16 officers. Residents said they feared they would be blamed because the two assailants arrested at the scene were identified by police as Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority already subject to strict security measures. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1969/1/Town-in-China-Returns-to-Normal-a-Day-After-a-Bold-Attack-/index.html Old men on donkey carts drove through this ancient city’s warren of sand-colored alleys, foreign backpackers haggled with salesmen over wool carpets, and shops and markets were open for business. A few policemen wandered around, and the faithful flocked to mosques. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1967/1/The-reality-of-Chinas-jihadist-threat/index.html The Chinese government is blaming the attack in Kashgar on Islamic terrorists. But there is very little evidence that al-Qaida is backing them. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1966/1/Jihad-in-Chinas-Far-West/index.html Kashgar is about as far as one can get from the Chinese capital of Beijing and still be in China. In fact, there is little to indicate one is still in China. Most of the people in this desert town are Uighurs, an Islamic minority group that has clashed again and again with rule of China's majority Han ethnicity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1965/1/Uighur-challenge-to-Chinese-hegemony/index.html The ancient city of Kashgar, commercial crossroads of the medieval Silk Road and home to the world's largest and most exotic Sunday market, seems an unlikely site for a terrorist atrocity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1962/1/Chinas-Olympics-must-embrace-all-of-the-nations-people/index.html Dozens of people were killed or injured in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China, after an attack on a military police unit. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1961/1/BBC-World-Service-Interviews-Mr-Alim-Seytoff-on-the-Kashgar-Incident/index.html Mr. Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uyghur American Association, was interviewed by BBC World Service at 2:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. London) on August 5 regarding Monday's attack on Chinese police in Kashgar. Mr. Seytoff, accepting the interview on behalf of Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer, has presented the position of UAA on the incident. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1960/1/China-how-desperation-destroyed-ideas-of-harmony-on-the-New-Frontier-/index.html Until dawn on Monday, when the peace of the city of Kashgar was broken by explosions, it would have been easy to believe in the Chinese Government’s version of the happy land of Xinjiang. The name means New Frontier, a vast area of desert and mountains remote even to most Chinese, with all the trappings of an archetypal mysterious East. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1957/1/Olympics-Clampdown-After-Attack/index.html A massive police and military operation is now under way in the far reaches of China抯 Empire in the run-up to the Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1956/1/Chinese-Muslims-cower-under-secret-police-crackdown/index.html Launching a terrorist attack in Kashgar, according to the Chinese government, is as pointless as throwing an egg at a stone. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1954/1/16-Dead-in-Xinjiang-Attack/index.html Days ahead of the Olympics, assailants reportedly kill 16 paramilitary officers in Xinjiang zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1952/1/Attack-in-China-Kills-16-Border-Patrol-Officers-/index.html Two men armed with knives and explosives ambushed a military police unit in China’s majority Muslim northwest Monday morning, killing 16 officers and wounding 16 others before being arrested, according to the state media. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1951/1/Truck-Grenade-Attack-in-China-Kills-16-Policemen-/index.html Two assailants crashed a dump truck into a paramilitary police station in the restive Xinjiang region Monday and tossed out two grenades, killing 16 policemen and wounding 16 others in an apparent terrorist attack, the official New China News Agency reported. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1946/1/-Freedom-to-travel-in-China/index.html As international journalists jet in to Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games, Hugh Sykes takes a rather slower route on the overnight train from the west of China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1945/1/There-are-three-types-of-tourist-two-can-go-home/index.html South of Beijing is an old steel town called Handan where bicycles outnumber cars. It has a nostalgic, industrial charm and spruiks itself as an "excellent tourist city" with "splendid culture". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1944/1/Citys-signs-suggest-a-house-divided-/index.html Beijing keeps wary watch on a restive region as the opening of Olympics nears, writes the Tribune's Evan Osnos. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1938/1/Travel-Restrictions-for-China-Muslims-/index.html With the clock ticking for the opening of Beijing Olympics, Chinese Muslims are complaining of travel restrictions and being picked up for strip searches before boarding. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1932/1/Chinas-credibility-on-terror-in-focus-as-Games-near/index.html For months, Chinese authorities have been publicising the threat from separatist militants in the northwest region of Xinjiang, saying members of its Muslim, Uighur minority were bent on disrupting the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1931/1/Uighur-boxer-seeking-Olympic-glory-/index.html In the far west of China, there is a place called Yizebah. It means Orchard Village in the local Uighur language. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1928/1/Radical-Islam-stirs-in-Chinas-remote-west/index.html  In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1926/1/Agency-ordered-to-restore-benefits-to-Celils-wife/index.html A federal minister moved quickly on the weekend to reverse the Canada Revenue Agency decision that cut off benefits to the wife of a Canadian jailed in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1918/1/Homes-Raided-in-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese authorities in Gulja, which saw an armed crackdown on protests in 1997, are raiding homes in a security campaign they say is aimed at the country's huge migrant population but which activists abroad say targets minority Muslim Uyghurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1915/1/Kazakh-jazz-singer-tackles-East-Turkistan-issue-with-her-music/index.html Although Kazakh musician Saadet T&uumlrköz occasionally took to the stage to sing songs at local festivals at the age of 29 or 30, if someone had told her that one day she would become a musician who binds continents together, she would not have believed it. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1913/1/Celil-pleads-for-transfer-from-isolation/index.html In solitary confinement in China, prisoner tells relatives he's so desperate for sunlight and human contact he'll go anywhere, including a forced labour camp. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1911/1/Racial-profiling-at-Shanghais-Tomorrow-Square/index.html A guest at Tomorrow Square on People's Square has alerted us to this document entitled "Safety measures for the tenants of Tomorrow Square for the Olympic period" posted in the building. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1895/1/Uyghurs-Jailed-From-Guantanamo-to-Beijing-/index.html As a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay an "enemy combatant" and ordered that he be released, transferred, or granted a new hearing, an influential congressional committee delivered a scathing criticism of China's closed trial of 15 men on terrorism charges – resulting in the immediate execution of two defendants, three suspended death sentences, and 10 sentences of life imprisonment. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1892/1/Free-at-Last-Free-at-Last-Or-Not/index.html Could there be any more compelling commentary on America's loss of credibility among the international community then the inability of the Bush administration to find countries willing to accept Guantanamo prisoners who are scheduled for release because they have been judged by the U.S. military to have never had any ties to terrorism? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1891/1/US-lawmakers-condemn-crackdown-on-Chinas-minority-Muslims-/index.html US lawmakers on Friday "strongly condemned" what they called Beijing's harsh pre-Olympic crackdown in China's Muslim-populated far northwest Xinjiang region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1888/1/Chinas-Treatment-of-Muslims-Under-Fire/index.html US lawmakers on Friday, July 11, denounced China's harsh crackdowns in the Muslim-majority northwest Xinjiang region ahead of the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1886/1/China-Executes-Two-Uyghurs/index.html Authorities in Xinjiang execute two Uyghurs for alleged terror links. Fifteen others are sentenced. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1883/1/Uyghurs-Killed-in-Raid/index.html Chinese police stage a dramatic raid on a flat occupied by ethnic Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1882/1/Muslim-terrorists-killed-in-China-raid/index.html Chinese police killed five people they said were Muslim terrorists preparing to fight a "holy war" for control of China's western regions, state media said zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1881/1/Gitmo-cases-to-start-with-detainees-held-first/index.html A federal judge said Tuesday that those Guantanamo detainees who have been held the longest likely will be the first to have their cases heard in U.S. District Court, depending on security concerns and their health. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1875/1/Guantanamo-Crumbles-/index.html A federal court strikes another blow against the flimsy process used to justify detentions of 'enemy combatants.' zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1873/1/Radical-Islam-stirs-in-Chinas-remote-west/index.html In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, the Chinese government has been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1871/1/Guantanamo-Detainees-shorter-wait/index.html Last month's Supreme Court ruling sets new rules for judges examining habeas corpus challenges from detainees. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1870/1/Guantanamo-as-Alice-in-Wonderland/index.html Some of us have known for years that the US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" has more to do with a fantasy world in which nonsense masquerades as truth, logic is skewed, and nothing that is uttered remotely resembles evidence that would stand up in a court of law. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1868/1/-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo-/index.html In a ruling that is years late, but is nonetheless brave and important, a federal appellate court held last week that a prisoner at Guantanamo has been wrongly deemed an “enemy combatant.” Huzaifa Parhat, the prisoner whose fate was at issue in the case, has been in US custody at Guantanamo for over six years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1867/1/Evidence-Faulted-in-Detainee-Case-/index.html In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1865/1/Human-Rights-protesters-make-a-song-and-dance-of-slamming-Beijing-Olympics/index.html CAMPAIGNERS for human rights held a ‘Jump For Justice’ protest carnival against the Chinese authorities in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics opening in August. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1863/1/No-longer-enemy-combatants-but-still-stuck/index.html The first time, we talked over strong coffee and sweet sodas in a small cafe on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, ignoring the strong smell of decay that permeates the fringes of a desperately poor city. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1858/1/East-Turkestan-Uyghurs-Hold-Demonstration-in-Brussels-/index.html On 25 June 2008 about 150 Uyghurs from various EU countries led by their charismatic leader Rebiya Kadeer gathered with other supporters for a demonstration organized by the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in the European district in Brussels. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1854/1/AIDS-Activists-Dream-Died/index.html A young undergraduate in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang describes how authorities dismantled a grassroots organization he founded to educate people about AIDS. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1852/1/Demonstration-for-the-Rights-of-the-Uighurs-in-China/index.html “I personally invite you to participate in the demonstration the World Uighur Congress is organizing in the European district of Brussels. I will be very happy to meet you there.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1844/1/Court-Voids-Finding-on-Guantanamo-Detainee/index.html In the first civilian judicial review of the government’s evidence for holding any of the Guantánamo Bay detainees, a federal appeals court has ordered that one of them be released or given a new military hearing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1843/1/Appeals-Court-Invalidates-Detainees-Enemy-Status/index.html A federal appeals court in Washington has invalidated the Bush administration's finding that a detainee held for more than six years in the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba is an "enemy combatant," and has ordered the government to release him, transfer him or offer him a new hearing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1841/1/-Court-rules-on-Guantanamo-inmate/index.html In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an "enemy combatant". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1840/1/Faking-the-Olympic-Spirit-in-Chinas-Muslim-Region/index.html The Olympic torch is in China's far West and security is tight. Still, there are some who came out to celebrate the event -- 200 invited guests and a handful of well-trained Uighar schoolchildren. Journalists were watched closely. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1839/1/Foreign-media-curbed-as-Olympic-flame-passes-through-Xinjiang-and-Tibet/index.html Reporters Without Borders today accused China of breaking its promises to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by preventing foreign journalists from freely covering the journey of the Olympic flame through Xinjiang and Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1838/1/China-jails-five-clerics-for-organizing-Mecca-trips-group-says/index.html A court in China's far-western region of Xinjiang has sentenced five Muslim clerics to seven years in prison for illegally organizing haj pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the World Uighur Congress said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1833/1/Appeals-court-rules-for-Guantanamo-detainee/index.html  A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1832/1/Protest-for-prisoner-in-China/index.html Beneath a gathering storm on the outskirts of Chinatown, and across the street from the Chinese consulate, protesters gathered yesterday to urge the release of a Burlington man serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1826/1/Former-Guantanamo-prisoner-deported/index.html A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China is to be deported from Sweden, according to a decision by the Swedish Migration Board. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1824/1/Olympics-add-to-security-misery-in-Chinas-far-west/index.html There is little doubt that in large swathes of the world's most populous country, the Beijing Olympics are being keenly anticipated as a chance to show off China's new global standing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1823/1/Olympic-torch-paraded-through-military-city-in-Chinas-northwest/index.html The Beijing Olympic torch paraded through a major military city in China's Muslim-dominated northwestern region of Xinjiang Thursday where police patrolled for terrorist activities, the government said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1821/1/Silk-Road-city-clamps-down-for-Olympic-torch-relay-/index.html Chinese soldiers lined the streets of Kashgar ahead of Wednesday's Olympic torch relay through the sensitive former Silk Road city, populated by ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1820/1/Media-freedom-pledge-ignored-in-Chinas-far-west-/index.html When China applied to host the 2008 Olympic Games, organisers famously pledged complete media freedom, to the general bemusement of rights groups who regularly berate the Communist state for locking up reporters. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1813/1/Chinas-Kashgar-locked-down-ahead-of-torch-relay/index.html China locked down the far-western city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic Muslim Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1811/1/Police-out-as-torch-hits-Xinjiang-/index.html Security was tight as the Olympic torch began passing through China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, on a highly sensitive part of its trip to Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1809/1/Canadian-Imprisoned-in-China-needs-Government-Help-Amnesty-/index.html At an Amnesty International press conference in Toronto on Friday the wife of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in China, asked the Canadian government to step up efforts to secure her husband's release from jail in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1808/1/Exiled-Uighurs-oppose-Olympic-torch-legs-in-disputed-China-region/index.html Exiled Uighurs stepped up their opposition to Olympic torch relay legs through China's far west on Monday, one day before the flame is scheduled to be paraded in the vast Central Asian region of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1807/1/Chinese-officials-urge-Xinjiang-residents-to-skip-torch-relay-/index.html The authorities in the troubled far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang are telling people who want to watch the Olympic torch as it passes through the area to stay at home and tune in to the television instead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1806/1/Why-US-is-quietly-pressing-for-Celils-release/index.html The United States has quietly become one of the most aggressive advocates for Huseyin Celil after Washington politicians risked the ire of Beijing and made him the subject of two motions calling for his release. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1805/1/AUSTRALIA-Olympics-Terror-Threat-a-Bogy---Experts/index.html With less than two months to go before the Beijing Olympics begin, analysts have rejected claims that terrorism is a major threat to the Games, despite recent reports from China of militant activity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1798/1/Uyghur-Web-Site-Shut-Down/index.html “My main agenda is to promote understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese,” a Uyghur professor says after authorities shut down his Web site. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1797/1/Shifting-sands-tell-the-tale-of-the-Chinese-west-/index.html There has never been a marker on the ground in this area, and had there been, it would have been long ago removed, but through much of its long history, the country we know today as China has largely petered out somewhere in the vicinity of this Silk Road outpost. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1764/1/Lawmakers-demand-freedom-for-Chinese-held-at-Gitmo/index.html Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1761/1/East-Turkestan-Senator-Brown-Speaks-Out-Over-Detained-Uyghurs/index.html Further to a resolution put before the United States Senate, Senator Brown has called on the United States to push China to make major improvements in its human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1760/1/China-Crackdown-Hits-House-Churches-Hard/index.html House churches across China have been hit by a wave of arrests and detentions, says China Aid Association, the leading support group for China’s persecuted Christians. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1759/1/Tibet-isnt-the-only-captive-nation-in-Beijings-empire/index.html The international attention being focused on China's thuggish military occupation of Tibet in the run up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is well-deserved, but it should be remembered that Tibetans are by no means the only group in western China living under the heel of the Beijing imperialists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1758/1/Celil-Guantanamo-Bay-and-the-rejected-refugees/index.html Languishing behind prison walls somewhere in China, Huseyin Celil may never know how much impact he has had on the continuing plight of a group of his brethren held in a controversial prison on the other side of the planet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1756/1/A-prisoners-plea---Freeing-Huseyin-Celil/index.html This month's appearance of a letter purportedly written by Burlington resident Huseyin Celil from a Chinese prison is disturbing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1751/1/Scream-in-Chinas-face-or-whisper-in-its-ear/index.html One speaker passionately insisted that quiet diplomacy is a cop-out. Another was just as strong in his conviction that it's the only way to effect change. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1747/1/China-Ethnically-diverse-forum-shut-down/index.html On May 15, Uighur Online, the main online forum serving to bridge the huge communication gap between China’s Muslim population, other minority ethnic groups, and Han Chinese, was shut down. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1746/1/Quiet-diplomacy-fails-Canadians/index.html The Canadian government likes to claim that it cares about citizens who are in trouble in foreign lands. In fact, Canada's record of assisting citizens in trouble is abysmal -- a record that stretches over the years, be it Liberal or Conservative governments. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1742/1/Suspicious-Ending-in-Trial-Concerning-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html Suspicious Ending in Trial Concerning Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti/ Central Government Gives Major Funds to Ministry of Public Security to Dismantle House Churches Across China zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1740/1/Combating-a-dire-China-AIDS-crisis/index.html This month, as earthquakes roiled southern China, Penn researcher David Metzger left Philadelphia to deal with a health crisis in yet another part of China - a remote city on the edge of the Gobi Desert. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1735/1/Detainee-treatment-new-details/index.html At the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military guards called their sleep-disruption efforts for detainees the "frequent-flier program." This involved constant cell changes meant to disrupt prisoners' rest and lower their resistance to interrogations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1734/1/Pray-for-me-Celil-asks-in-first-letter-from-prison/index.html For the first time, imprisoned Canadian Huseyin Celil has spoken out in his own words about his 2½-year ordeal in the Chinese legal system, saying he is quickly losing hope that he will ever see the outside world again. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1730/1/Report-US-Soldiers-Did-Dirty-Work-for-Chinese-Interrogators/index.html U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1713/1/Formal-Court-Date-set-for-Persecuted-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html Xinjiang-CAA has learned that the case against persecuted Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti has progressed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1703/1/Guantanamo-Attorneys-to-Congress-Resettle-Imprisoned-Refugees/index.html CCR Expert, Other Guantánamo Attorneys Ask Elected Officials to Move with Utmost Speed in Relocating Refugees Still Detained zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1697/1/Circle-of-steel-around-the-silk-road-/index.html He was arrested as he arrived at the school gate, in full view of fellow students and his teachers. Taken away by police, the Uygur teenager remains in jail three months later. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1695/1/Ducking-terrorism-specter-China-official-says-restive-west-safe-for-business/index.html Chinese officials sought Friday to reassure investors that the restive western territory of Xinjiang is a safe place to do business, despite alleged terrorist plots and protests among its native Turkic Muslim population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1691/1/China-Tibet-and-the-Strategic-Power-of-Water-Pollution-and-Global-Warming-Threaten-Asias-Most-Important-Freshwater-Source/index.html Almost two years after a 710-mile (1,100 kilometer)railroad across the world's highest plateau opened from central China to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1690/1/Update-on-Prosecution-of-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html CAA has recently learned that the case against Uyghur Christian limujiang Yimiti, has been formally transferred to Kashi District Intermediate People's Court for formal prosecution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1683/1/Torch-relay-worsens-China-crackdown-Rebiya-Kadeer-/index.html The planned route of the Olympic torch through China's restive Xinjiang region is worsening Chinese repression there and should be cancelled, a leader of the area's ethnic Uighur population has said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1682/1/Chinese-Uighur-exile-urges-Olympic-boycott-over-genocide/index.html A senior exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighur minority has urged a boycott of the Olympics, accusing Beijing of "cultural genocide" alongside its crackdown in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1678/1/-In-Chinas-wild-wild-west-/index.html Beyond the stereotypical notions of dragons and daggers, kung-fu and Confucius, lies another, less-known face of China and the people of China. In the narrow alleys and bylanes of China's glittering cosmos, you can spot people who share few facial similarities with the Chinese or Han people, and who speak Mandarin with a rough and garbled accent, if at all. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1677/1/Appeal-to-Interpol-Do-not-allow-yourselves-to-be-misused-for-Chinas-anti-terror-war-Terror-charges-against-Uighurs-are-exaggerated/index.html The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) appealed on Friday to Interpol not to allow itself to be misused for China’s anti-terror war and to reject as exaggerated Peking’s complaints of terror against Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1676/1/There-are-other-Tibets/index.html In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1668/1/UNPO--OST-Use-Plein-To-Castigate-China-/index.html UNPO and the East Turkestan Foundation joined forces to hold a protest against China's ethnic policies outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague's Plein on 26 April 2008. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1660/1/Uyghur-Leadership-Empowerd-by-Training-Seminar--/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) organized their second leadership training seminar in two years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1658/1/Uighurs-struggle-in-a-world-reshaped-by-Chinese-influx/index.html In China's far west, the Muslim ethnic group finds itself relegated to menial jobs. Chinese officials also restrict religious practice and use of their language in schools. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1656/1/Its-not-just-Tibet/index.html Lindsey Hilsum evades minders and a shadowy, silver Mitsubishi on the trail of the independence-seeking Uighur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1651/1/An-Olympic-Torch-With-a-Different-Meaning/index.html The North Church at Market Square is a well-know local spot to bring your message to the public—especially one that mainstream media is not covering in depth. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1649/1/Exiled-Uyghurs-call-for-Olympics-boycott-at-Berlin-congress-/index.html An association of Uyghurs in exile accused China of "cultural genocide" and called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics at the start of a Uyghur congress in Berlin on Monday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1648/1/Uighur-rejects-terror-claims/index.html A leading activist for ethnic Uighurs denied Chinese accusations the Muslim minority group is planning terrorist attacks tied to the Beijing Olympics, saying Monday that Chinese leaders are trying to distract attention from their problems with Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1647/1/First-Day-WUC-Training-a-Great-Succes/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) organized their second leadership training seminar in two years, which opened today the 21st of April 2008. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1644/1/Restive-Xinjiang-Chinas-next-trouble-spot-after-Tibet/index.html The two young women trying on headscarves at a dusty market stall have heard of the recent unrest in Tibet's capital Lhasa, but they say the same could never happen here in China's border region of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1639/1/A-second-restive-minority-faces-Chinas-heavy-hand/index.html Almost unnoticed amid the wide-scale protests by Tibetans over the past month is the social unrest among the roughly 8 million Muslim Uighurs in China's resource-rich far western territory. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1638/1/A-Uighur-in-Guantanamo-with-no-place-to-go-/index.html A Chinese Muslim who has been a prisoner at Guantánamo since 2002 has finally gotten a hearing before a three-judge panel in Washington on the question of whether he was properly classified as an enemy combatant. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1637/1/Disappointment-and-Hope/index.html The Olympic Torch came to San Francisco on Wednesday, and was met with crowds of protesters and supporters, waving brightly-colored flags and banners. Tibetans, Darfur activists, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, as well as those loyal to mainland China all had a lot to say, turning the scenic Embarcadero roadway into quite a spectacle. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1636/1/China-Court-Reconsidering-Labor-Camp-Sentence-For-Frail-Christian----/index.html A Chinese court will reconsider whether a Uygur House Church Christian is to remain in a labor camp in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, amid worries about his health, his supporters and family said Monday, April 14. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1630/1/A-Uighur-without-a-country/index.html A Chinese Muslim who has been a prisoner at Guantanamo since 2002 has finally gotten a hearing before a three-judge panel in Washington on the question of whether he was properly classified as an enemy combatant. Certainly based on the unclassified evidence offered at the hearing last week, the judges have no choice but to relieve Huzaifa Parhat of the enemy combatant designation and order his release. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1629/1/IOC-in-the-dark-about-Beijing-terror-plots-official/index.html The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it has received no information from China about alleged terrorist plots targeting the Beijing Games, but expressed confidence about security plans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1628/1/China-says-it-thwarted-Olympic-terrorist-plot/index.html Cells from Xinjiang province intended to kidnap athletes, tourists and journalists, officials say, but they offer little evidence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1627/1/Curfew-in-Xinjiang-Town-After-Police-Raids/index.html Chinese authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed a curfew following a series of police raids near the city of Gulja (in Chinese, Yining) looking for weapons and explosives, local residents say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1625/1/Chinas-multiple-victims-include-its-own-public/index.html Ihad hardly finished writing a news article on repression in Xinjiang last week when word reached me of the violent suppression of yet another protest by Tibetan monks in western Sichuan Province. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1623/1/Amid-Tibet-unrest-Xinjiang-also-seethes/index.html While the world focuses on unrest in Tibet and a resulting Chinese crackdown, Beijing's leaders also face simmering tension in Xinjiang, where the reservoir of anti-China sentiment seems as deep as the region's vast oil deposits. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1622/1/China-claims-to-have-foiled-Olympic-kidnap-plot/index.html China has uncovered two terrorist gangs aiming to kidnap athletes at this summer's Olympics and attack tourist hotels, the Ministry of Public Security said today - prompting calls for officials to reveal more of their evidence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1621/1/Uyghur-Christian-Faces-Possible-Execution-for-Subversion-of-National-Government/index.html China Aid Association has learned that Mr. Alimujiang Yimiti, a Uyghur Christian and father of two, may soon face execution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1620/1/China-faces-Muslim-resentment-in-west/index.html There was no sign of dissent in the bazaar, where men wove through the crowd on motorcycles with freshly butchered sheep draped behind them. But a Muslim merchant pinched his lips together with his fingers to show he could not talk freely. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1618/1/Quiet-death-in-Xinjiang/index.html The Dalai Lama has been called many things in his time. Rupert Murdoch once described him as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes", while CNN's Larry King mistakenly identified the political and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people as a prominent Muslim activist. However, until last week, nobody had ever called him a terrorist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1616/1/Months-later-Xinjiang-terror-raid-remains-a-mystery/index.html Mystery continues to surround official reports of a deadly raid in Urumqi that saved the Beijing Olympics from a terrorist attack. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1615/1/Free-Tibet-later/index.html While it is admitted here that the people of Tibet have a history that goes back 3,000 years and the Chinese did not officially claim sovereignty over the Tibetan Plateau until around 1900, the realities of the 21st century make the liberation of Tibet from Chinese rule almost an impossible dream. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1613/1/Tibet-isnt-Chinas-only-problem-resentment-still-simmers-among-Muslims-in-Xinjiang/index.html The chirpy Chinese coffee shop waitress smiled Saturday as she rattled off sites travelers should see in this jade-trading Silk Road town in Xinjiang _ a vast western region of China that like Tibet has a long history of unrest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1612/1/Beijing-Targets-Uighurs-In-Apparent-Crackdown/index.html Chinese paramilitary police sealed off a market town in central China last month and detained dozens of ethnic Uighurs, local residents and a government official said, in the latest sign of widening tension with the country's ethnic minorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1608/1/Chinas-Muslim-west-sees-prayers-sparks-of-unrest/index.html Thousands of Muslims gathered for prayers on Friday in southern Xinjiang, the restive border region where China fears separatist challenges, with low-key security that belied recent sparks of unrest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1607/1/Muslims-Chinese-tense-neighbours-in-ancient-Kashgar/index.html The muezzin's call to prayer at Kashgar's main Id Kah mosque is a loud reminder that millions of Muslims here in China's far west answer to a higher authority than the Communist Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1606/1/China-confident-of-maintaining-stability-in-Xinjiang---/index.html China said yesterday it was confident of maintaining stability in its north-western region of Xinjiang, after local authorities reported an attempted uprising there by Muslim "extremists". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1603/1/CHINA-Minority-Outbursts-Hurt-More-Than-Olympics-PR/index.html As the outburst of anger among China’s restive ethnic minorities spreads, the danger for Chinese communist leadership is more than a a public relations fiasco ahead of the all-important Beijing Olympic games but a serious threat to its mandate, analysts here say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1601/1/Uighur-Protest-in-Turkey-Against-China/index.html Police detained at least six Uighur Muslims on Thursday at an anti-China protest during the Olympic torch ceremony near one of Turkey's most famous tourist destinations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1600/1/BACKGROUND-China-equates-pro-independence-Uighurs-with-terrorists/index.html China's ruling Communist Party has intensified its ideological battle with members of its Uighur minority who seek an independent state in the Central Asian region known by Beijing as Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1599/1/Now-a-rebellion-in-Chinas-west/index.html China has accused Muslims in the nation's northwest of trying to start a rebellion after protests broke out in the Xinjiang province. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1597/1/Chinese-Police-Raid-Houses-in-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese police have conducted raids on several houses in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, possibly looking for weapons, sources in the area have told Radio Free Asia (RFA). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1596/1/Tackling-China-/index.html Curfews, headscarf bans and mass detentions. A Uighur activist discusses the protests against Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1595/1/Police-arrest-70-in-Chinas-restive-Xinjiang-group/index.html Police have arrested 70 people from China's minority Uighur ethnic group in the Silk Road oasis city of Kashgar, fearing trouble when the Olympic torch passes through the city in June, an exile group said on Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1594/1/Muslim-separatists-protest-as-unrest-spreads-in-China/index.html Muslim Uighurs have held anti-government protests in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese officials have acknowledged, blaming separatists inspired by the unrest in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1593/1/West-China-Tibet-Unrest-Tests-Beijing/index.html Unrest was reported Wednesday among Muslims in far western China, a headache for Beijing as it tries to squelch Tibetan protests and another sign that neither investment nor repression has ended anti-government feeling in the hinterlands. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1591/1/Tibetan-Protests-Appear-To-Inspire-Further-Dissent/index.html  Antigovernment unrest that began among Tibetans now appears to be inspiring protests by members of another large ethnic-minority group, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim people who live in the northwestern border province of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1590/1/China-Admits-Recent-Protest-in-Muslim-Province-/index.html Acknowledging a recent protest in the Muslim, northwestern province of Xinjian, the Chinese government has announced that Islamic separatist groups are seeking to foment unrest there. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1589/1/Uyghurs-Protest-in-Chinas-Remote-Xinjiang-Region-/index.html Several hundred ethnic Uyghurs have staged protests in C